Which preposition to use with stove

in Occurrences 92%

As it was, the Female Samson's head came down just in the centre of him, and stove in about three-fourths of his ribs.

with Occurrences 32%

Mrs. West, with her heart in a tremor that it had not known since Marjorie was born, tucked away her knitting behind the school-books on the dining-room table, tied on her blue checked apron, and went out to the kitchen to kindle the fire for tea, singing in her mellow voice, "Thus far the Lord hath led me on," suddenly stopping short as she crammed the stove with shavings to exclaim, "His name was Holmes!

of Occurrences 20%

The goguelu rises suddenly up from his tuft of grass, and, having sung a few staves of his gurgling song, drops down again like a cricket-ball and is no more seen.

in Occurrences 20%

Full of joy, they stuck their staves in the earth, and with their heads and faces on the ground, did reverence.

for Occurrences 19%

Back in a shadowy corner of the cabin he lay, while the man prepared something over a hot stove for Joan.

of Occurrences 14%

"A large bright room, ... a sandheap in one corner, a low tub or bath of water in another, a rope ladder, a swing, steps to run up and down and such like, a line of black or green board low down round the wall, little rough carts and trolleys, boxes which can be turned into houses, or shops, or pretence ships, etc., a cooking stove of a very simple nature, dolls of all kinds, wooden animals, growing plants in boxes, an aquarium.

off Occurrences 13%

Yet Italy was only temporarily delivered, for Stilicho,the hero of Pollentia,with the collected forces of the whole western Empire, might still have defied the armies of the Goths and staved off the ruin another generation, had not imperial jealousy and the voice of envy removed him from command.

on Occurrences 11%

"Yas. 'Twas hotter'n a red-hot stove on the road.

to Occurrences 9%

Then we discovered that they had collected and lowered to the beach a quantity of stateroom doors from the wreck, and had trundled the galley stove to the edge where it awaited our assistance.

at Occurrences 7%

The fire would smoke in the stove at every one of these blasts, and the flame leaped in the lantern.

for Occurrences 6%

Six archers soon after made their appearance, bringing with them ladders, spades, ropes, and large iron staves for the purpose of breaking the legs of the criminals, in order to hasten their deaths.

from Occurrences 5%

I traced the development of his powers, and instanced some of his poems, my poems, which I recited so well that they sounded to me, and I swear to them also, like staves from an angelic hymn-book.

from Occurrences 5%

He came up, limping, and stood on the other side of the stove from Scotty.

with Occurrences 3%

The children could be seen on barrel staves with a pair of old boots nailed to the centre into which they slipped their feet with their own boots on.

by Occurrences 3%

The Nurnberg stove by Ouida, pseud.

like Occurrences 3%

Dotty spread out her stiff, red fingers before the cooking-stove like the sticks of a fan.

to Occurrences 2%

When Constable fell from heaven, and we all hoped Baldwin was next, I tuned a slight stave to the words in Macbeth (D'avenant's) to be sung by a Chorus of Authors, What should we do when Booksellers break?

into Occurrences 2%

The part of the rod which fits into the cross head eye should have more taper when made of copper or brass, than when made of iron; as, if the taper be small, the rod may get staved into the eye, whereby its detachment will be difficult.

on Occurrences 2%

matter enough To spoil a waggon-load of ash-staves on, And break a dozen fools' backs across their cantlets.

as Occurrences 2%

He nodded toward the boy, who had placed his chair as close to the stove as possible.

behind Occurrences 2%

By night the wolves would come stealthily to prowl among the deserted lanes; and the fishermen, asleep in their clothes under caribou skins, or sitting close by the stove behind barred doors, would know nothing of the huge, gaunt forms that flitted noiselessly past the frosted windows.

into Occurrences 2%

There was even laughter in the courtyard of the hospital, where the doctors tossed blankets, mattresses, food stores and stoves into the motor ambulances.

opposite Occurrences 2%

That ancient trembling crone who sits behind the stove opposite the great clothes-press may have been there for a quarter of a century, and all her thinking and feeling is, beyond a doubt, intimately blended with every corner of the stove and the carvings of the press.

out Occurrences 2%

They took a ten-gallon steel oil-drum and made a stove out of it.

than Occurrences 2%

We are reckoned a practical folk, who would rather hear about a new air-tight stove than about Plato; yet our favorite teacher's practicality is not in the least of the Poor Richard variety.

Which preposition to use with  stove